Microsoft and LinkedIn believe they can help to "lift" the global economy. Both companies will now have a hand in building an economic graph that combines corporate and business data to create what ...

Last Thursday LinkedIn unveiled its plan to build the world's first economic graph. Its building blocks, for now, will come from the data and data exhaust of its members as they create and maintain ...

Jeff Weiner says LinkedIn will evolve to help companies do things like determine skill gaps and create just-in-time curriculum to "train workers for the jobs of tomorrow." Shara Tibken was a managing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. Now is the time to build more housing to avoid price shocks when economic ...

SAN FRANCISCO---The term “graph” has become one of the most unexpected buzzwords in technology this year. Perhaps even a bit haphazardly, the word is being batted around frequently by some of the ...

LinkedIn — the professionally-oriented social networking platform that’s being acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion — has made a play to build what it refers to as “the economic graph“, a concept ...

SAN FRANCISCO --Even with a successful IPO behind it and solid earnings quarter after quarter, LinkedIn still has some ambitious plans in the pipeline. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2013 on Monday, LinkedIn ...

What is it about graphs and economics? In a discipline where facts are murky and certainty is elusive, graphs offer a bright light of information and a small confidence that the world can be summed up ...

Maybe it's just me, but the last few years are getting tough to tell apart. Imagine a quiz question: Name that year where we threw obstacles in the recovery's way, but kept growing slowly; where ...